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How to Convert a STL file to 1 solid objecthttp://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=47731&th=9351#msg_47731
I cant figure out a way to create a solid object using solely the exterior geometry. Can anybody here help me?]]>atatassault2012-05-02T01:05:51-00:00Re: How to Convert a STL file to 1 solid objecthttp://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=47732&th=9351#msg_47732
If your software doesn't have a tool which explicitly does this sort of thing, you could do it with boolean ops. For example:

Make solid which bounds the object
Subtract object from solid
Make solid which fills hole
Subtract intermediate result above from second solid

You may have to do fore and aft sections then union the result depending on how your software feels about solids with holes in the middle.]]>damocles2012-05-02T01:18:55-00:00Re: How to Convert a STL file to 1 solid objecthttp://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=47733&th=9351#msg_47733
atatassault2012-05-02T01:54:36-00:00Re: How to Convert a STL file to 1 solid objecthttp://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=47750&th=9351#msg_47750
If you get stuck, send me a PM with the stl and I'll have a look at it.

Paul]]>stop4stuff2012-05-02T11:58:43-00:00Re: How to Convert a STL file to 1 solid objecthttp://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=47789&th=9351#msg_47789

stop4stuff wrote on Wed, 02 May 2012 11:58

For Shapeways to make the model hollow with the interior geometry intact, there is a tunnel joining the interior shell(s) to the exterior shell(s) - eliminate the tunnel and it doesn't matter if the internal geometry is still there, Shapeways software will delete it and only go by the exterior shell.

If you get stuck, send me a PM with the stl and I'll have a look at it.

Paul

Thanks, that helped a lot. I got it working.]]>atatassault2012-05-03T00:32:41-00:00